News of the Western Belize Recreational Area, about 500 square miles of waterfalls, caves, Mayan ruins and pyramids, Belize Alps, foothills, ranches and farms, tourist accomodations of all types and description, tours and expeditions for vacationers and visitors. Even a small growing expatriate retirement group of people from different countries. In Belize, this is where it is happening, all the things that are fun and even serious, with a climate of ETERNAL SPRING.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

WOMEN IN BELIZE DO NOT ENTER POLITICS AND DENY NATION FAIR REPRESENTATION

BELIZE UNFAIR AT POPULATION REPRESENTATION. WOMEN ARE OSTRACIZED FROM POLITICS BY NASTY CAMPAIGN SLANDER AND NOT WILLING TO FACE SUCH A CRUEL GAUNTLET OF HYPOCRITICAL DOUBLE STANDARDS SET BY MEN´S SEX RULES.

Women In Politics graduate 3rd cohortSaturday, 24.03.2012, 09:35pm

Fifteen novice women leaders who represent the third cohort of the Women in Politics Training Programme received their certificates of completion at a graduation ceremony at the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel on Wednesday, March 21.

In Mexico where women outnumber the men in total demographics, the law sets a quota requiring all political parties to have 30% women candidates, but Belize has not yet reached that point.

Even though women are 50% of the electorate, there is only one woman elected to the House of Representatives. The ratio gets better in the Senate where five of the 12 Senators are women and two are Cabinet Ministers.

The National Women’s Commission is working actively to address this disparity through the Women In Politics programme. The latest participants have completed 13 weeks of training, and their graduation happily coincided with Women’s Month.